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I am running Fedora 6 Core in Virtual PC 2004. The install was successfull but after i started the GUI my screen goes red and looks distorted but i can still see an X which looks like it represents my mouse. What am i doing wrong and what is causing this?
Distribution: approximately NixOS (http://nixos.org)
Posts: 1,900
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Are you logged in as root? I think that red background is because you login as root, and distortion is because VMWare tries to rescale the screen image to fit into available space. It should probably be turned off.
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